For years, scientists suspected that waves breaking on plastic-littered seas were a major source of the tiny fragments now ...

Scientists discovered human-made microplastics in the hindguts of amphipods from the Challenger Deep, the deepest point on ...

In a twist on conventional wisdom, researchers have discovered that in ocean-like fluids with changing density, tiny porous particles can sink faster than larger ones, thanks to how they absorb salt.

Tiny plastic particles drifting through the oceans may be quietly weakening one of Earth’s most powerful climate defenses.

In the deep ocean, thousands of feet below the surface, it looks like it's snowing. At those depths, the water is filled with slowly drifting particles known as "marine snow," part of a never-ending ...

Daniel Ohnemus is at the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Savannah, Georgia 31411, USA. Read the paper: Abyssal seafloor as a key driver of ...

From more than 400 miles above Earth, NASA is tracking some of the planet’s smallest life forms drifting just beneath the ocean’s surface to monitor how global warming affects ocean health. The ...

Researchers have created the first full picture of how zinc circulates in the Southern Ocean, affecting marine life and the whole planet's carbon cycle. In a study published in Science 1 the team ...

Kate Spencer receives funding from NERC, Lloyd's Register Foundation and EU Interreg IV programme Preventing Plastic Pollution Nan Wu works for Queen Mary University of London and the British ...

Limnology and Oceanography, Vol. 66, No. 9 (September 2021), pp. 3255-3270 (16 pages) Sinking particulate organic matter controls the flux of carbon (C) from the surface ocean to the deep sea.

It has puzzled scientists for years whether and how bacteria, that live from dissolved organic matter in marine waters, can carry out N 2 fixation. It was assumed that the high levels of oxygen ...